On Nov. 12, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a short-term funding bill ending the longest federal government shutdown in history. Among other things, the bill funded the government through Jan. 30, 2026—this Friday. In the weeks that followed, appropriators in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives made a plan to pass groups of spending bills funding the government through the end of the fiscal year. Last week, the House passed the final group of bills and sent the package to the Senate for what was supposed to be bipartisan approval of the package well before the Friday deadline.
That scenario is no more.
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